Planning Your Vegetable Garden

A useful plan starts with what actually happened this year. Review the harvest, decide what deserves space next season, work out how much your household needs, and turn those choices into a practical growing and sowing plan.

Start with these practical guides:

Review Your Growing Season Before Planning Next Year

How to Decide What to Grow Next Year

How to Plan a Vegetable Garden with a Greenhouse or Polytunnel

How to Measure and Plan Your Vegetable Growing Space

How to Plan Succession Growing in a Vegetable Garden

How to Plan for Two Vegetable Growing Seasons

How to Create a Sowing and Transplanting Plan

Simple Crop Rotation for a Vegetable Garden

How to Keep Useful Vegetable Garden Records

Preparing the Vegetable Garden for Autumn and Winter

How Many Vegetable Plants Do You Need?

When to Sow Seeds: Understanding Seasons and Your Climate

What to Do with Empty Vegetable Beds

Extending the Harvest into Autumn and Winter

Then build next season step by step: review what worked, choose crops, calculate quantities, organise beds and protected spaces, plan sowing and transplanting dates, and adjust for frost dates and your local climate. Keep useful planting and harvest records so the plan improves each year.

Prefer to keep the plan in one place? Your Growing Companion can help you connect crop choices with Spaces and Beds, the Sowing Calendar, Seasons, local weather and frost information, and your planting and harvest records.

These guides are written from Simon’s more than 40 years of practical organic-growing experience, including his work as a former Garden Organic Master Gardener and his membership of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture. The aim is calm, useful advice that can be adapted to your own garden, climate and household.